Summary On February 6, 2019, the German Bundeskartellamt (“FCO”) concluded that Facebook had infringed German competition law by violating the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).2 The decision, a Russian…

Thibault Schrepel explains how the German Bundeskartellamt decision is in opposition to accepted competition law in a Bloomberg interview: The Bundeskartellamt decision "goes to the heart of Facebook’s business model:…